I hope it’s just this evening. In the meantime, go watch this:
Update: Okay, it has me beat for the evening. Curses be upon you who still use IE and make me have to care about such things. Also, please send me a CSS fairy to fix this awful image padding/wrap issue. Thank you very much.
Mañana.
The update from mañana: juggling too much else. But as to why this is worth all the time I spend on this? Watch this. Via BoingBoing.
The update from the moment I decided that was enough of that: okay, that should be it. Just needed to clean up a bunch of buggy stuff, and finally give the page the width I wanted. There are a few other usability bits that I’d really like to add, but that will just have to come at some future date. Now I cross my fingers and hope that the image styles I added actually work.
And I ask myself, is it really Horn OK Please? In my thousand miles behind those trucks and buses, I always read it OK Horn Please. The mysteries of life . . .
Peej
Great find, that last video and relevent to some dicussions we’ve been havingt home around the pervasion of the digital world into our son’s life.
I’m waited with bated breath (no sarcasm) to see how my son learns to epxress himself and communicate, the older he grows and–obviously–the more the tools he has at his dispoal progress. Were he limited to the use of a pen or pencil and paper, it would be at least two years before we could see him ‘write’ his letters in a way that they could be easily recognized, fine motor skill development in toddlers taking the time it does. As it is, he can read, pick out and type all the letters of the alphabet as we call them out, using the keyboard, and has even learned how to use the caps lock key to shift between lowercase and upper case. He already knows he can create and destroy and recreate those letters with speed and ease and that the permanence in what he ‘writes’ is defined by him. It’s just mind boggling–and a bit eerie– to watch.
MB
While I’m sans kid, I do think about that a lot, too. I think that, if I were a parent, I’d probably spend entirely too much time worried about what was lost by her (for lack of sharing a conceptual model with me) and what is lost by me (for lack of sharing a conceptual model with her) in the process.